Philip Roth

News about Philip Roth, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Oct. 12, 2014

Alex Ross Perry's latest film Listen Up Philip is not an adaptation of a Philip Roth novel, but is deeply inspired by the author's characters and style. MORE

May. 10, 2014

Novelist Philip Roth, who has quit writing fiction, says he is also giving up reading it publicly. MORE

May. 4, 2014

Op-Ed article by author Lisa Scottoline describes what it was like to take an English class in college with author Philip Roth; contends that Roth was an excellent teacher, in that he showed his students that the best way to become a writer is to find one's own voice. MORE

Apr. 8, 2014

The artists’ colony will present the Yaddo Artist Medal to Mr. Roth at a fund-raiser in New York City in May. MORE

The Arts/Cultural Desk

The author Philip Roth has chosen a biographer who is to be granted unfettered access to his correspondence, private archives, family and friends. The biographer, Ross Miller, 58, is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut.

June 21, 2004artsNews

Book Review Desk

Philip Roth, who seldom gives interviews, agreed recently to talk about his new novel, ''The Human Stain.'' The conversation took place in Roth's wood-paneled studio, behind his house in rural Connecticut, where he has lived since 1973. It's a place, he says, where ''there's not much else to do except write.''

May 7, 2000artsInterview

Book Review Desk

Philip Roth's ''Goodbye, Columbus,'' published in 1959 as the title novella in a collection of stories, has turned out to be an enduring commentary on postwar America and, more specifically, the Jews who were part of it.

December 3, 2014, Wednesday

This winter, T delves deeper: into the best-known works of literary luminaries (including Philip Roth, who comes out of retirement to re-examine “Portnoy’s Complaint”); into the extremes of food consumption, from fasting to feasting; even into...

November 6, 2014, Thursday

The French writer Patrick Modiano, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, does not have many readers beyond France. When the literature laureate is largely unknown outside his native country, what does the accolade mean?